The attitude behind this wording really irritates me. No one should need 'permission' to play a game they bought. Anyone else getting the vibe Sony was putting off this time seven years ago?

I'm 26 minutes in, and they've shown me the console, but they've only shown about 3 seconds of a racing game.

I know you guys all watched this already, and I'm behind the curve, but damn, I'm not sure I want my console to do any of this stuff. Same goes for you Sony...not looking to share my gaming shit on facebook. I'm also not looking for complicated purchasing structures, and I damn sure don't care whether either of you don't like Gamestop. Actually, if you hate used games, give me something like iTunes.

The most interesting console to me right now is the Steam Box, and it's probably vaporware.

So if you can play it for free among family members, get a group of five friends together, call them your family, and each person takes a turn buying games.

Welcome to PSN.

i think, as someone pointed out before, you need to be logged into one gamer account. so unless you want to share that with others (which doesn't make much sense), this doesn't seem to be an option.

Based on the Phil Harrison description, the Xbox One is pretty much Steam right?. Activation code that ties the game to your account, and you don't necessarily need to be online to play but need it to activate.

Can't really lend PC games around to friends and family either.

I was showing my 12 year-old the Ouya this afternoon with all the emulation I have on it and she asked me if it was a SteamBox. I don't know where she heard about it so there's obviously a demand within her age group (or I'm senile and forgot talking about it before).

Anyway, I should probably just get a new iMac and turn this Mac Mini into a cheap rig in the living room.

Can you currently do that on the PSN? PS4, here I come!

With games downloadable on PSN, yes. You can have your profile on 5 PS3s and if any profile on a machine has a game, they all have it. Game sharing is pretty common actually. I did it a bit, but given that I have 3 PS3s in the house, returns were diminishing.

45 minutes in, and I thought they were going to show a Halo game. Nope...it's another TV show.

So far, it's been Forza and EA Sports.

Edit...and CoD has a new engine...and a dog...aaaaand scene.

It's 2 PS3s now. They changed it around the time BF3 was released. Content that was shared before that on 5 PS3s still worked but everything after was limited to 2z

The event was for hardware features only (as stated before the event even took place), games come in 2-3 weeks around e3. I swear, no one got the memo on that

They changed that a while ago. It's only 2 machines now.

Yeah, but if your 360 is offline for a few days for whatever reason, you can still play single player games that you own. According to this, with the One, you won't be able to do that.

It's amazing that these companies are competent enough to stay in business.

So price aside all this was more or less on point. Bums me out. MS has been my console of choice since the original, but this one just sounds too anti-consumer for me.

Bingo.

Flamewar on my facebook started by a guy in his 20's. It's hilarious how he's acting like a child over this shit it's hilarious

Good overview of the new controller: http://kotaku.com/the-tiny-cool-deta...ller-509188976

Not that I would ever use it for watching live TV, but my HD cable box only has component output (no HDMI). So how would I get that to work with the XO?

Get a better service provider.

Component to HDMI converter/adapter?

I really don't want my console to do any of that shit.

I don't want to talk to it, or grip it in thin air, or search the internet, or post to facebook, or have it call me by name, or turn it on just to change the channels on my fucking TV. I've tried cameras and sensor bars, and I'm done with that nonsense too.

For a console as entertainment hub, my PS3 goes about as far as I want it to go and just a bit further. I play games on it, watch blu-rays on it, and maybe a bit of Netflix. Xbox One had me at Blu-ray and then lost me with pretty much everything else. Oh, and it would be nice if it played games, preferably some compelling exclusive ones.

It's like these assclowns at MS and Sony don't know that my smartphone is always at arm's reach, and my universal remote isn't that fucking complicated.

Xbox Done. They relieved none of my anxieties. Can't change the hard drive. The only way that I would like Kinect is if I could say "Xbox hand me my controller" or "Xbox get me a sandwich" and have the machine comply. Then on top of that they threw in a stupid name.

Maybe Microsoft is tired of losing the coveted "Worst Company" title to EA every year.

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Good one. Close thread.